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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a small stream which flows to the west, are several water-mills connected with the manufacture. The Gloucester and … tithe-free, and another is partly so; both belonged to the abbey of West Mailing. The living is a discharged rectory, … which flowed by it in its course from Panton to Bardney Abbey. It is of some antiquity, but is not distinguished by …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… which in that of Henry II. was attached to St. John's Abbey, Colchester. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Henry I., which subsequently became a cell of St. John's Abbey, Colchester. The remains consist only of one angle of a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the north side of the quadrangular edifice called Wroxhall Abbey, founded by Hugh de Hatton, about the close of the … of Downe, in 1618, which still retains the name of Wroxton Abbey, and is now the seat of Colonel and Lady North. The … a very considerable extent, there being more than 30 paper-mills on the banks of the stream; besides six flour-mills. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Eyton, ix. 145. V.C.H. Salop. i. 486; Cartulary of Shrews. Abbey, ed. U. Rees (1975), ii, p. 249; T.S.A.S. 4th ser. i. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… century 62 and there was a priest in 1086. 63 Shrewsbury abbey claimed the church itself as a gift of Roger, earl of … to generally in two mid 12th-century confirmations of abbey property, 65 were not mentioned thereafter. The church, … cheese, dairy products, bees, gardens, fishponds, and mills (built or to be built); 'pennies of charity'; tithes of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 12 s. in 1086. 1 In 1176 Henry II gave it to Haughmond abbey. 2 Control of the Tern in the area was clearly a … 5 and in 1650 Richard Steventon owned three water corn mills, probably three wheels in one mill, at Allscott. 6 In … as a fuller. There were three water corn and two fulling mills there in 1745. 8 By 1799 a skin mill had replaced the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and 1670 it was owned by Jonathan Langley of Shrewsbury Abbey (sheriff 1663, d. 1671); 8 he was succeeded by his son … probably that held by his church in 1086, to Shrewsbury abbey before 1092. 27 The abbey retained the overlordship until 1540, 28 although the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… tract extending southward to the river Derwent. Wykeham Abbey, the seat of the Hon. Marmaduke Langley, who is lord of … of a priory of Black monks, at first a cell to the abbey of St. Alban's, by William d'Albini or Daubeny, in … of Helgay. About 1448 it was elevated to the rank of an abbey, and it continued to flourish till the Dissolution, …